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Martian Double Craters
Over on Planet Four Talk moderator wassock found this Martian double crater in the HiRise images: which can only have been created by 2 simultaneous impacts. He messaged me to ask if we had found...
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Le Voyage dans la Lune – Georges Méliès
Fancy a sci-fi film? Grab some popcorn (but not much – it’s only a short film) and make yourself comfy. (Contains violence, aliens and pointy hats.) The iconic image from Le Voyage dans la Lune...
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Intrepid Descends
This image from the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal shows the Apollo 12 lunar module, Intrepid, prior to descent on 19 November 1969. The two large foreground craters are Ptolemaeus and Herschel. Richard...
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There’s a four-leaf clover on the Moon!
… as well as 13 other things you might not know we left on the Moon. The location of man-made objects on the Moon. wikipedia 1. Metal soccer balls For over 50 years we have been sending things to the...
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This week in 1967 – Apollo 7
Apollo 7 lifts off on October 11 1967 apolloarchive.com 46 years ago this week Apollo 7 carried out its successful C-type low Earth orbit mission. It was vital that this mission – essentially a test...
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3-D Moon
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has created a WAC (Wide Angle Camera) low-Sun mosaic and turned it into this amazing anaglyph. It’s well worth a look. Dig out the red and blues and spend some time...
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The Moonometer
If you’ve ever wondered how many clicks you and your fellow Moon Zoo explorers have accumulated there is a way to find out. Click on the MoonometerTM link on the main Moon Zoo page to find not only the...
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The whole of the Moon
Using stunning Wide Angle Camera (WAC) images the LRO team created this timelapse movie of the rotating Moon. From Earth we don’t see the Moon rotate like this because the Earth’s gravity slowed the...
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Moon Dust – rediscovered
Moon dust is in the news. The Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission currently in lunar orbitis about to begin the science phase of examining the thin lunar exosphere and...
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All Hail China!
This is China’s Chang’e 3 landing on the Moon over the weekend. China has now joined the very select club of just 3 nations who have landed on the Moon and this was the first soft landing for 37...
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